The FAA released a statement in response to questions about an ordinance under consideration in the tiny farming community of Deer Trail, Colo., that would encourage hunters to shoot down drones.

Under the proposed ordinance, Deer Trail would grant hunting permits to shoot drones. The permits would cost $25 each. The town would also encourage drone hunting by awarding $100 to anyone who presents a valid hunting license and identifiable pieces of a drone that has been shot down.

…the Deer Trail proposal is the latest ripple in a spreading backlash against drones. Dozens of laws aimed at curbing the use of the unmanned aircraft have been introduced in states and cities.

Privacy advocates have expressed fear that police will use drones to cheaply and effectively conduct *widespread surveillance without warrants*.

The order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has been in place for years but must be renewed every three months. It was exposed in June after former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked details of two top secret U.S. [World Tyrant] surveillance programs that critics say violate privacy rights.

The order was set to expire Friday, and its renewal shows that the Obama administration [The World Tyrant] and the court of 11 federal judges stand behind its [supposed] legality.

The two programs, both run by the NSA, pick up millions of telephone and Internet records that are routed through American networks each day.

But they have raised sharp concerns about whether the U.S. [The World Tyrant] is improperly –or even illegally– snooping on people at home and abroad.

A federal judge said Friday that she finds “disconcerting” the Obama administration’s [The World Tyrant’s] position that courts have no role in a lawsuit over the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen

The suit was filed by relatives of the three men killed in the drone strikes, charging that the attacks violated the Constitution.

Brian Hauck, a deputy assistant attorney general lawyer who argued the case for the government Friday, noted that President Barack Obama, in a speech in May to the National Defense University, said he didn’t think it was constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen without due process.

“Where was the due process in this case?” asked [U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M.] Collyer, an appointee of President George W. Bush.

Hauck said there were checks in place, including reviews done by the executive branch.

“No, no, no, no, no,” Collyer retorted. *”The executive is not an effective check on the executive” when it comes to protecting constitutional rights*.

Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights –which is representing the relatives along with the American Civil Liberties Union– called the government’s arguments “*not just wrong; they’re dangerous*.”

Former Marine Tara Johnson says that when she finally got medical care after being sexually assaulted in the military, the Veterans Affairs doctor asked whether she really thought she had been raped.

She left the session so dismayed and discouraged that she hasn’t been back to a VA facility. She now gets treatment outside of the VA through her private insurance coverage, she told a congressional committee Friday.

Navy veteran Brian Lewis spoke of the isolation that comes from being a male victim of *military sexual assault*. He said he was denied access to a support group for military sexual trauma at the Baltimore VA because it was reserved for women. He also felt ostracized when joining a group of combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Men don’t have anywhere to go,” Lewis said. “Men are emasculated when they talk about this [*military sexual assault*].”